Nokia Reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,678 total reviews)
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73% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Nokia has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 18,678 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nokia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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19K reviews
3.0
Oct 28, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Average compensation, great benefits, and pretty stable. Lots of people have been here for +10years. As long as you don't end up in a project led by a team or management India, it's a great place.

Cons

If you do however, be prepared for a lot of unreasonable demands, working with tech and process that's 10 years behind, and being a full time fire fighter.

2.0
Sep 19, 2023

Not a good place

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work-life balance. Generous PTO.

Cons

Lots of work politics. Pay is below average.

2.0
Jan 14, 2022

Nokia Ottawa team

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good salary and performance driven initiative Around three weeks of paid location No micromanagement

Cons

Slow processes Working with India team on their time zone Poor communication within the team The manager has not done 1:1 in 6 months No-one turned on their webcam in any meetings even I worked there for years A great deal of difference in work culture from what it appears to be on Linkedin for teams in Europe and teams in Ottawa. The company hasn't given a single dollar for clearing certifications Haven’t given a penny for work from home setup Every 2 years, the company does a lot of changes on the upper management restructuring. You will receive long emails about what they are planning to do and what they are doing. But literally, at your level, nothing will change. So in the end, the company will be doing a lot of restructuring just because new leaders came and they want to do things their way. Overall, so do you think creates a lot of uncertainty with employees and lack of trust in company policy Poor intra-team communications Almost 0 events for team building. Just one event was organized where we met in the park, that's it! On 16th March 2021, Nokia announced that it will lay off 10k employees within 1-2 years because of that the motivation was impacted Gave 0% increment at end of the year for no good reason Gave no perks except the standard insurance plan. Being in development, when asked for Mac I was told that Windows is the only option that you can have, awesome 🙌 Most teams rely on VLab (an IaaS) to deploy/perform/test their work, I was not assigned a lab for more than a year. Everybody in the management kept saying that we are short of resources. How can you deploy 10 versions of 50 GB software on a single Lenovo machine and be productive? The NCS team has good documentation, most of the others I have seen rely on confluence pages most of which are outdated or hard to find. No of rounds to get the job was lesser, so it will be better if they hire quality people rather than just hiring in a single meeting.

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